CBS News has picked up the story of the woman who claims her hospital gave her no protection to take care of COVID-19 patients.

But CBS News apparently didn’t check the story because, as they say, it was too good to check.

Imaris Vera, part-time nurse and part-time Instagram model, claims she quit her job at a Chicago area hospital – still unnamed – because the hospital didn’t provide nurses with proper equipment around COVID-19 patients.

All we’ve heard is howls from governors and CDC officials for us not to take away gear from first responders. Save the PPE and the N-95 masks for the pros. So at first blush, the story looked like it might be true.

Then it started crumbling.

In perfect hair and make-up, the model and Instagram influencer wept over not having enough equipment to stay safe. She wept for her family who might get COVID-19 from her. CBS provided a somber music bed over which the sobbing nurse declared:

“America is not being prepared. The nurses are not being protected. I quit my job today. I went into work and I was assigned to a COVID patient on an ICU unit that has been converted to a designated COVID unit.”

In one frame CBS wrote the quote, “none of the nurses are wearing masks…”

CBS News obviously wanted people to understand that these nurses were not given masks to wear around COVID-19 patients.

People were outraged. Presidential candidate Bernie Sanders demanded something be done by the Department of Labor!

“It is insane that our nurses are being forced to care for the sick without masks and respirators. The Department of Labor must immediately issue emergency workplace standards to protect our health workers, their families, and their patients.”

It is insane that our nurses are being forced to care for the sick without masks and respirators. The Department of Labor must immediately issue emergency workplace standards to protect our health workers, their families, and their patients. https://t.co/Z8dWqtxz5X

“… not even surgical masks in the hallways when they’re giving reports to each other. I had my own N-95 mask. I told my manager I know we’re short on supplies, but let me protect myself. Let me feel safe. I have family that I have to come home to and, the way things are looking, this isn’t going to get any better. America is not prepared. And nurses are not being protected.”
That’s right, they’re not wearing surgical masks in the hallways. It doesn’t appear she actually said they weren’t wearing masks in the rooms of COVID-19 patients, but that’s not what CBS wanted you to think.

My colleague, Megan Fox, saw Vera’s original Instagram post and asked her to provide the name of the hospital so she could get a comment from them. No response. In fact, we still do not know where this woman worked.

On her Instagram page, the woman claims to be a traveling nurse. In February, she was thrilled to get a contract at a hospital after being off ICU work for a year and a half:

“✌🏼 Two 12+ hour shifts coming right up !!! Laundry 🧺 , cleaning 🧹 , meal-prepping 🍴 , mental pep-talks 🧠 & possibly crying 😭 over a glass of wine! 🍷 lol How do you prep for a shift(s) or clinicals?
So I’m three weeks into my first ICU contract in over a year and half after cross training as a traveler into Interventional Radiology. I’m honestly struggling a bit & know it’s my depression & bi-polar disorder trying to get the best of me!”

Sadly, since she is “struggling from depression and bi-polar disorder” and feeling “triggered,” one might think the ICU would be a bit too overwhelming. Some less generous folks compared her to Jussie Smollett and called her a “crisis actor.”

Remember when Jussie Smollett was paraded by #FakeNewsMedia because it hurt Trump …

Indeed, two days ago, before CBS did its treatment of Vera’s story, she did an interview with WGN TV in Chicago and admitted that the still-unnamed hospital did give nurses N-95 masks but told them to wear one per day.

There are a lot of sick folks out there and not from the virus. Also, we now have scams going on the try and steal the stimulus money from unemployed workers.
I have always maintained that the death penalty is the best cure for people who hurt little children, old folks and sick people. I will add those who scam people out of their stimulus money. This would apply to politicians who stick their pork bills in with the stimulus package. Give then a trial, convict them and then gas them. They are nothing but sick animals.